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Recorded: 1991-1999

Released: Nov. 13, 1999

Rating: 3.600 (average of 5 ratings)

Genre: adult contemporary/pop

Quotable: --

Album Tracks:

  1. The Power of Love
  2. If You Asked Me To
  3. Beauty and the Beast (with Peabo Bryson)
  4. Because You Loved Me
  5. It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
  6. Love Can Move Mountains
  7. To Love You More
  8. My Heart Will Go On
  9. I’m Your Angel (with R. Kelly)
  10. That’s the Way It Is
  11. If Walls Could Talk
  12. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
  13. All the Way (with Frank Sinatra)
  14. Then You Look at Me
  15. I Want You to Need Me
  16. Live for the One I Love

Sales:

sales in U.S. only 7 million
sales in U.K. only - estimated 600,000
sales in all of Europe as determined by IFPI – click here to go to their site. 5 million
sales worldwide - estimated 21.5 million

Peak:

peak on U.S. Billboard album chart 1 3
peak on U.K. album chart 1 1

Singles/Hit Songs:

  • Beauty and the Beast (11/16/91) #9 US, #9 UK, #3 AC. Gold single.
  • If You Asked Me To (4/18/92) #3a US, #60 UK, #1 AC
  • Love Can Move Mountains (11/14/92) #35a US, #46 UK, #8 AC
  • The Power of Love (11/27/93) #1 US, #4 UK, #1 AC. Platinum single.
  • Because You Loved Me (3/9/96) #1 US, #5 UK, #1 AC, #41 RB. Platinum single.
  • It’s All Coming Back to Me Now (8/17/96) #1 US, #3 UK, #1 AC. Platinum single.
  • My Heart Will Go On (12/13/97) #1 US, #1 UK, #1 AC. Gold single.
  • To Love You More (5/23/98) #11a US, #1 AC
  • I’m Your Angel (10/24/98) #1 US, #3 UK, #1 AC, #5 RB. Platinum single.
  • That’s the Way It Is (10/30/99) #2a US, #12 UK, #1 AC
  • The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (4/8/00) #19 UK
  • I Want You to Need Me (5/6/00) #12 AC

Awards:

Rated one of the top 1000 albums of all time by Dave’s Music Database. Click to learn more. One of the Top 100 All-Time World’s Best-Selling Albums

All the Way…A Decade of Song
Celine Dion
Review:
“There aren’t a lot of greatest-hits albums with seven new songs…There are just nine hits on this hits collection, and of those, only a handful – If You Asked Me To, Beauty and the Beast, The Power of Love, Because You Loved Me, It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, and My Heart Will Go On – were huge hits in the U.S. Her first American hit, ‘Where Does My Heart Beat Now,’ isn’t here, nor is her duet with Barbra Streisand, ‘Tell Him’” (Erlewine) or her top 5 cover of ‘All by Myself.’

“Naturally, this means it’s not a definitive collection, but rather an unsatisfying album that feels suspiciously like a piece of product. The best of the hits, like the Meat Loaf-ian epic ‘It’s All Coming Back to Me Now’ and ‘My Heart Will Go On,’ are certainly among the best adult contemporary songs of the decade, and the new stuff would pale in comparison, even if it was very good – which, by and large, it is not” (Erlewine).

“Two numbers, the danceable That’s the Way It Is and the pretty ballad If Walls Could Talk, work, but the cover of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face falls flat and All the Way, complete with old vocals from Sinatra, is a disaster. The remaining three aren’t bad, but they’re not particularly memorable, especially compared to the hits” (Erlewine).

“And that’s the problem with All the Way – if it had been a straight hits collection, with ‘That’s the Way It Is’ and ‘If Walls Could Talk’ added to the end, it would have been fine, but padding it with nearly a full album worth of new material hurts it” (Erlewine).

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Previous Non-Holiday English Album: Let’s Talk about Love (1997)

Last updated March 26, 2008.